History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 31
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Sound, and at 'points nearly opposite each other, were the beginning of civilization in Westchester County, and that the first was with the Dutch and the second with the English, the two races of whites which, in succession, ruled that county and the Province and State of New York."1 De Lancey's Hist, of the Manors (Scliarf, i.. 10). DISCOVERY AND PRELIMINARY VIEW (39 Notwithstanding the failure of the old New Netherland Company organized by Block, Christiansen, and their associates, to get its charter of monopoly renewed in 1618, that organization did not pass out of existence. To the New Netherland Company, moreover, belongs the honorable distinction of having made the first tangible proposal for the actual settlement of the country — a proposal quite explicit and manifestly sincere.